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Past Halifax Event: VOL 20

VOL 20

Social Enterprise. We all know that it's something good, but what is it exactly?

Come out to the 20th PechaKucha Halifax event to hear how local organizations like Common Good Solutions, Stone Hearth Bakery and the Halifax Music Co-op are giving back to the community.

The unique PechaKucha quick-fire presentation style of 20 slides for 20 seconds each makes for great (and often hilarious) show-and-tell presentations. Spend an informative evening listening to people's involvement with and thoughts about Social Enterprise.

Held in collaboration with Common Good Solutions (a fantastic local organization that supports and celebrates social enterprise in Atlantic Canada)

Pre-show social 19:45Presentations start 20:20

Eventbrite tickets $6Tickets at the door $7*$1 from each admission will go to the PechaKucha Global Fund

PRESENTATIONS FROM THIS EVENT

DavidUpton is the co-founder of Common Good Solutions and an advocate for business as a tool for the creation of real good. He is a husband, father, grandfather, teacher, avid reader and a noted punster.

ElJones is a spoken word artist, teacher, and activist. She was the Poet Laureate of Halifax from 2013-2015. She is a two-time national slam poetry champion and has performed, lectured and taught nationally and internationally. El currently teaches in the department of Sociology at Saint Mary's University. El is most influenced and inspired by the many nameless and unrewarded women who labour every day in their communities with love.

Bertina Evers, an inspired volunteer with a BFA, needed the time and energy going into her charities to become more efficient, effective and easier to reach a supportive audience. Resulting in the creation of: Goodgoods – an online bulk marketing platform serving not for profits, charities and social entrepreneurs.

As a complex integrated systems thinker, Kelly Schare is a socially-minded science-driven doer. She strives to think big and holds space to fail safely. She identifies with the ocean and all the fresh waters that connect to it. Having traveled extensively on the ring of fire in Asia as a 20 something, she has a unique and critical perspective to bring home to Atlantic Canada.

“We are here to knock down the barriers between music, education and people.”

In Halifax Music Co-op from PechaKucha Night HalifaxVol. 20, John Bogardus shares what the Halifax Music Co-op is. Bogardus is a curious and passionate conductor, and has been playing in and leading ensembles the majority of his life. In 2010, John started the program that would become the Halifax Music Co-op. Since that time, he has devoted his life to nurturing the organization and its membership as both Executive Director and Music Director of the HMC. His passion for music and musical education has grown the Halifax Music Co-op from humble beginnings to an organization of half a dozen ensembles and over 200 members.

Over the past 20 years JohnHartling has worked with community service groups in many roles. Focusing primary on working with people living in poverty he has developed and managed programs assisting youth & adults with achieving their educational and employment goals. Currently, John works at MetroWorks as the Manager of Programming and Business Development. One of his responsibilities includes providing leadership and support to the staff and participants at Stone Hearth Bakery, which has been a social enterprise in Halifax since 1982!!

LindellSmith shares his project, The O.N.E. or One North End. Smith has lived in the North End of Halifax for 26 years and has been doing work in his community and beyond since he was 12. Lindell has done stuff that has helped with other stuff that has had an impact on a lot of stuff. Lindell does lots of things and cares about people and lots of stuff.

Home grown in Bedford, NS, and now long-time resident of Halifax’s North End, BriannaStratton, is here tonight as Founder of the Bridge, though she wears many hats. Basketball coach, entrepreneur, start-up mentor, wife, sister, daughter, aunt, and well-intentioned exerciser – at her core, Brianna is a dreamer and passionate Maritimer.

Over the past decade, AaronEmery has been a brewer in Michigan, a disaster-relief coordinator in Mississippi, an ESL teacher in South Korea, a strategy consultant in Toronto and the Canadian lead for the global “B Corp Movement”. He moved to Atlantic Canada to raise a baby and launch a network for business leaders hell-bent on fighting for the health & wealth of Canada’s East Coast.

From Truro, NS, Lauren Sears loves the world of sport. A former CIS volleyball player, and now assistant coach at Saint Mary’s University, she is giving back to a community that impacted her development. Now as the CEO of Pursu.it, Lauren is looking to help even more athletes reach their goals.

Jayme Melrose wants to see the plants reign victorious, conquering concrete with food, beauty and biodiversity Raised feral in the forest of northern BC, she studied ecological horticulture and permaculture at Linnaea Farm School on Cortes Island, BC., followed that with a Bachelor of Community Design from Dalhousie. She is currently the Project Coordinator & Flower Farmer at Common Roots Urban Farm, where she's been working too hard since 2012!